Understanding news
News depends for its effect on a culturally shared language, and this book concentrates on ways we can decode its messages without simply reproducing their underlying assumptions.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Abingdon [England] :
Routledge
1995, c1982.
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| Edition: | 1st edition |
| Series: | Studies in culture and communication
Studies in Culture and Communication |
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009628082806719 |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; UNDERSTANDING NEWS; Copyright; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; GENERAL EDITOR'S PREFACE; 1 NEWS AS COMMUNICATION; In the beginning; News-discourse; Talking and writing about the news; 2 READING THE NEWS; Reality and relationships; Sign-systems; Signs; Paradigm and syntagm; Multi-accentuality; Orientation; Connotation and myth; Icons; Simultaneous signifiers; Codes and conventions; Discourses and referents; Socially-structured discourse; 3 NEWS AND SOCIETY; Topics; Treatment; Telling; News in society; Capital; The State; Relative autonomy and ideology; Winning consent: hegemony
- From class to culture4 THOSE WHO THREATEN DISORDER; Preferred readings and ideological closure; 'News at Ten'; Trial by semiotics; 5 SELECTION AND CONSTRUCTION; News values; Mapping reality: consensus and dissent; Mapping the outsiders: dissent; 6 HAIL FELLOW WELL MET; Mode of address; Common sense and images of the audience: conversation; Common sense and 'understanding': the bardic function; 7 A WINTER OF DISCONTENT; Elements of news narrative: visual structures; Institutional and accessed voices: verbal structures; News narrative: fact and fiction; The 'Nine O'Clock News'
- 8 PRODUCING THE NEWS: FOR OURSELVESProducing the audience; Losing the audience; The 'other' news; Finding the audience; 9 CONSUMING INTEREST; Experience and mediation; Subjectivity; How is ideology 'consumed'?; Man-made news; Negotiating with ideology; 10 CRITICIZING THE NEWS: WHAT TO DO AND WHERE TO FIND IT; Projects; Alternatives; Further reading and study; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; INDEX
